Comprehensive Measurement Of Social Enterprise Impact

The theory of enterprise financial management offers number of methods used in practice which serve as basis for investment decision making and as a mode of feedback on its effectivity and impacts. Most of these methods are appropriate mainly for enterprise financial management whose main objective is market value maximisation or profit maximisation. But important elements of present-day economy are also enterprises pursuing a higher objective than profit. In European Union countries this role is played particularly by social enterprises in the form of profit-making or non-profitmaking organizations which quite often obtain public-budget-based support. Undoubtedly, social enterprise as a whole may be viewed as so-called social investment. Measuring of real impact of this type of investment is important not only for social entrepreneurs but also for public authorities or bodies and it requires application of different methods. Research objective of this article is to propose a set of methods which can be used to measure social enterprise contribution effectively and comprehensively by social entrepreneurs or public authorities.